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FO Friday – Christmas Knitting #1

On By FogKnitsIn FO Friday, Hat, Toy5 Comments

Every year, I say no more Christmas knitting.  I never mean it, this year especially.  Obviously, with a new nephew, there will be Christmas knitting.  His first holiday package went out today,  the reversible hat (that you saw on Monday) and a new stuffed friend!

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The little friend is not my favorite.  He’s a Rebecca Danger creature using her Basic Uni-Body design.  I meant to make a blue striped monkey but once I stuffed the body, I didn’t like it enough to do the monkey add ons.  There would have been ears, a tail and a protruding snout piece.

The snout piece was just too much.  It involves picking up a circle of stitches on the face, knitting outwards while shaping into a dome, stuffing it, closing it and then embroidering onto it.  I was not in the mood, so he’s just a funny, stripey, blue thingamabob.

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Of course, because I don’t like him, I expect this will be Marcus’s favorite.  His floppy arms are perfect for grabbing and chewing!  I think those little legs are likely to get chewed on too!

I’ll attempt the monkey again something but I’ll skip the stripes.  Before that though, it’s time for Baby’s First Christmas Sweater.  It won’t be ugly.  It won’t even be tacky.  It will be a little naughty though!

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I’m halfway through the back and with a little determination, this could be done by next Friday!  Three cheers for aran weight yarn and 4 stitches per inch!  Wooooooo!

 

It was fun while it lasted.

On By FogKnitsIn cross stitch, Sweater, WIP9 Comments

Procrastiknitting in full force!  I worked on the dragon tail fade yesterday (it still looks the same though.)  Then, I started a new nephew sweater.

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It’s a Newborn Vertebrae, in KnitPicks Felici.  It’s the cutest little sweater and for once, my loosey goosey gauge is going to benefit me.  The Vertebrae series of patterns spans from newborn size all the way up to adult.  It’s a really cute ‘frontless’ cardigan with raglan shaping.

The newborn size is actually too small for my nephew.  It’s a 0-3 month sort of size but my little buddy, at six weeks old is easily fitting into a 3 month onesie.  My plan is to knit the newborn size (aka the free size of the pattern) and hope my loose gauge gives something closer to a 6-9 month sweater.  It should be perfect for the cooling fall weather.

I think it’s going to work out.  Gauge should be 7 sts/in,  I’m about 6 sts/in, giving me a slightly larger FO.  It’s almost like I planned it!

Procrastiknitting is in full force!  I worked on the dragon tail fade yesterday too (it still looks the same though.)  Might as well procrastiblog a bit more too!  Here’s my latest cross stitch project…

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MoviePass has really put the FUN in funemployment.  If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a subscription service that offers one basic movie ticket, per day for the low monthly fee of $9.95.  No Imax or 3D, which was perfect because I don’t like those enhancements.

I joined at the beginning of the year and promptly started seeing movies.  It was awesome.  I saw almost every Oscar nominated film…I’m talking all the down ballot movies too.  I only missed Blade Runner and Roman J. Esq.  It was certainly the most interested I’ve ever been in the Oscars.

Over time though, MoviePass has eroded it’s service.  Turns out their business model sucks.  Today, that same $9.95 buys you 3 movie tickets per month, you can only see a movie once and only movies that they happen to be offering on any given day (aka the shittiest movies out).

After getting significant enjoyment out of my MoviePass, I was finally fed up with their horrible treatment of customers so I quit.  Now that my MoviePass time has come to an end, I miss the good old days already.  It was only a few months ago but it was a great reminder of how much I like going to the theater.

I saw Oscar nominated films.  I saw big budget action flicks.  I saw a boatload of documentaries.  I even got to see a special anniversary showing of the Dark Crystal and a director Q&A of the documetary ‘The King’.   Of course, I also saw some shit.  MoviePass was financial permission to enjoy seeing shit though.

The company is still in business but by all accounts they won’t last long.  So I had to memorialize my fond MoviePass memories in cross stitch.  I haven’t decided exactly how to finish the bottom.  Perhaps simply “it was fun while it lasted.”

While I decide, here’s a run down of what I saw.   As far as I’m concerned, Call Me By Your Name was robbed at the Oscars.  It’s an absolutely gorgeous movie about a sweet and touching love story.  If you have the chance, I highly recommend seeing it.  And now, here’s the full list…

The Best of the Bunch:  Call Me By Your Name (4x), I, Tonya (3x), Thor: Ragnarok, Dark Crystal, Isle of Dogs (2x), RBG, Sorry to Bother You, 3 Identical Strangers

The Really Good Ones:  Lady Bird, Darkest Hour, The Post, Get Out, Coco, Jumanji, Faces Places, Love, Simon, The Party, A Quiet Place, Deadpool 2, Filmworker, Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist, Hearts Beat Loud, Eating Animals, Incredibles 2, Whitney, The Cakemaker, 8th Grade, Love, Cecil, Blindspotting, Miseducation of Cameron Post, Blackklansman, Skate Kitchen, Puzzle, The Meg

The Just Ok:  Downsizing, 3 Billboards in Ebbing, Mo, Proud Mary, Dunkirk, Winchester, Molly’s Game, Black Panther, Thoroughbreds, Game Night, Final Portrait, Kings, Lives Well Lived, Bad Samaritan, Avengers, Ready Player One, Always at the Carlyle, House of Tomorrow, Solo, Hotel Artemis, Ocean’s 8, American Animals, Jurassic Park, The King, Won’t You Be My Neighbor, The Misandrists, Ant-man and the Wasp, Hotel Transylvania, Generation Wealth, McQueen, Dark Money, Leave No Trace, Support the Girls, Happytime Murders

Why Did I Bother With These:  Greatest Showman, Pitch Perfect 3, Shape of Water, Annihilation, Wrinkle in Time, Tomb Raider, Death of Stalin, Journey’s End, Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, Overboard, Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean Michel-Basquiat, Mountain, Heredity, Gauguin, Mamma Mia 2, Mission Impossible Fallout, Nico, 1988, Mile 22

I Left Early:  Super Trooper 2 (turns out this was NOT Super Bad 2, d’oh), Life of the Party (actually had to google to remember what this one was, at least I was able to block it from my mind!), Action Point

The Absolute Worst:  Phantom Thread

I hated Phantom Thread, it’s terribleness is unrivaled.  UGH.  I can’t believe this was someone’s vision?!?  If I can save even one person from wasting two hours on that shit, it was worth for me to sit through it.

And so, now that I’ve procrastiblogged.  I really have no excuse.  I should go do some job interview prep!  UGH!